So there are two films centered around our 16th President that are due out this year.

There is one that is slated for release sometime TBA this year simply called Lincoln (although I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that it’s December) starring a young man by the named of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abe and the man behind the camera is an up-an-comer you might be familiar with: Steven Spielberg. It’s most assuredly a drama that will aim for Oscar gold for its production and its acting (the strong supporting cast includes no fewer than Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, That-Guy Extraordinaire John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, David Strathairn, Jackie Earle Haley and none other than Boyd Crowder himself, Walton Goggins). It’s a stacked film that should do very well.

And then there’s that other one…

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is due out in June and the title alone should tell you everything you need to know! Directed by Wanted‘s Timur Bekmambatov and produced by the goth-master himself, Tim Burton, the plot summary is simply “President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.” Based on the 2010 Seth Grahame-Smith novel of the same name, the film plans to bank its success on the vampire subculture and the fantasy elements of putting one of the country’s most beloved Presidents into a much different situation than we’d ever imagined. Well we finally get our first glimpse of the film in the trailer that was released this week. Peep it right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPxdjECyPmw

I gotta say that I was only slightly interested in this before the trailer hit. The title and synopsis did a decent job of making people think that this could really be something different in the light of all the sequels and remakes out there. But under the helm of Bekmam-I always misspell his name-batov (Wanted just might be the only film that I’ve ever turned off halfway through and never finished because it angered/frustrated me so much) I gotta say that this film lies quite far down my list this summer. The effects are fine and I absolutely love the use of Johnny Cash (which will garner the trailer one heart more than I would have given it alone) but I see nothing that really grabs me and gets me excited like the different trailers from last week did. I think there will be a very excited audience for this one, but I have a feeling it’s going to be smaller than the filmmakers are hoping for. I could be wrong (it’s been known to happen before) but I have hard time believing that it’s going to recoup it’s nearly $70-million budget (plus advertising costs), even with the use of 3D (or maybe even because of that!)…

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But what do you think? Are you a fan of alternative history stories? Do you think President Lincoln is a badass? SHOULD President Lincoln be a badass? And what are the odds that Taylor Lautner runs in at some point without his shirt on (oh, wait a minute… I’m being told he was NOT a vampire in those-movies-that-will-not-be-named. My fault)…

Sound off below!